IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 75483 accession number: C.546-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 23 March 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Greyish-white stoneware, press-moulded in several parts, assembled, and salt-glazed. The glaze is tinged with greyish-green where it lies thickly and there is also a brownish olive dribble on one side of the base. The stand comprises a square base with incurved sides. On each of the four corners there is a boy's head supporting a concave leaf-shaped dish projecting from a central cylindrical support. This is surmounted by a man's head, perhaps that of the Duke of Cumberland, which is hollow and open at the top. The edges of the base are gadrooned and scrolled, and pairs of serrated leaves project upwards from each corner towards the central support. The inside of the leaves are deeply veined. The man's eyes have dark brown slip pupils. object type: greyish white salt-glaze egg-stand consisting of a four leaves radiating from a central stem surmounted by the head of the Duke of Cumberland (?), each leaf supported on a boy's head rising from the corners of the square base title: egg stand NOTES ----- type: history note value: Dr E.J. Sidebotham (1860-1929); sold to Cyril Andrade, London, from whom purchased for £50 on 15 October 1924 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75483 TECHNIQUES ---------- off-white stoneware, moulded in several parts, assembled, and salt-glazed press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- salt-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: stoneware category: white salt-glazed stoneware DATING ------ creation date: 1745 - 1755 creation date earliest: 1745 creation date latest: 1755 culture: 18th Century, Mid CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 14.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 14.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Loan Collection of Old English Pottery title: Exhibition of Early English Earthenware CITATIONS -------- Illustrated Catalogue of Early English Earthenware Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge The Illustrated Guide to Staffordshire Salt-glazed Stoneware --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_546_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_546_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_546_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_546_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_546_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_546_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_546_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_546_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_546_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_546_1928_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_546_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_546_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_546_1928_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_546_1928_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_546_1928_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_546_1928_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels